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...single race in the 1958 trials; with it, he beat Columbia and Weatherly his first time at the helm. But when Owner Hovey would not give him a free hand to select a crew for this summer's trials, Mosbacher quit and joined Henry Mercer's four-year-old Weatherly...
...lick our competition." Chandler Hovey's Easterner, trounced in 14 straight races in 1958, has undergone major surgery. Her mast has been stepped aft some 18 in.; she has a new keel, new sails, and a new skipper: Olympic Gold Medal Winner George O'Day. Henry Mercer's Weatherly, sailed by canny Bus Mosbacher, has been stripped for action...
PRIVATE YANKEE DOODLE (305 pp.)-Joseph Plumb Martin-Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among...
Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
There are still, of course, the two most confusing characters of all: Hector (Harry Low Simons) and Gnatalia (Carolyn Mercer) who drift across the stage with cryptic sneers apparently wondering why Wolfson put them there. Yet what they must say they say with dignity. And David Gilfillan has designed a magnificently intricate machine...